In New England, every citizen receives the elementary notions of human knowledge; he is moreover taught the doctrines and the evidences of his religion, the history of his country, and the leading features of its Constitution.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

Multa defatigatio, spiritus, viriumque substantiam exhaurit, et corpus refrigerat.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Greek text Ho pneumôn men oun kai ho thôrax kai artêriai hai tracheiai kai hai leiai kai kardia kai stoma kai rhines en elachistais chronou rhopais eis enantias kinêseis auta te metaballei kai tas hylas methistêsin.
— from Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen

The rough burr-thistle, spreading wide Amang the bearded bear, I turn'd the weeder-clips aside, An' spar'd the symbol dear: No nation, no station, My envy e'er could raise; A Scot still, but blot still, I knew nae higher praise.
— from Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns

A docto doctore mihi, qui sum praetendens, Domandatur raison a priori et evidens Cur rhubarba et le séné Per nos semper est ordonné Ad purgandum l'utramque bile?
— from The Imaginary Invalid by Molière

a lle era capitanio generalle ferando de magaglianes gentilhomo portugueſe et era com re de s to .
— from The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 33, 1519-1522 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century by Antonio Pigafetta

As soon as he had locked himself in he looked, under the bed, opened all the closets, explored every corner, rummaged through all the furniture.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

Mr Mulligan however made court to the scholarly by an apt quotation from the classics which, as it dwelt upon his memory, seemed to him a sound and tasteful support of his contention: Talis ac tanta depravatio hujus seculi, O quirites, ut matresfamiliarum nostrae lascivas cujuslibet semiviri libici titillationes testibus ponderosis atque excelsis erectionibus centurionum Romanorum magnopere anteponunt , while for those of ruder wit he drove home his point by analogies of the animal kingdom more suitable to their stomach, the buck and doe of the forest glade, the farmyard drake and duck.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

“Yours for ever,— “Edward Clayley.” Reader, do you want me to come back?
— from The Rifle Rangers by Mayne Reid

Quattro figlie ebbe, e ciascuna reina, Ramondo Beringhiere, e cio` li fece Romeo, persona umile e peregrina.
— from Divina Commedia di Dante: Paradiso by Dante Alighieri

255 Tum spicis et dente comas inlustris eburno et calido rubicunda die sic Africa fatur: “sperabam nullas trabeis Gildone perempto nasci posse moras.
— from Claudian, volume 2 (of 2) With an English translation by Maurice Platnauer by Claudius Claudianus

On what other day is the larder so full?—Full is not expressive enough; crammed, rammed, jammed full is more like the actual condition of things, so tightly wedged are pheasants and partridges, grouse and quail, great roasts of beef and haunches of venison, pork and pasty, mutton and fowl.
— from Crowded Out! and Other Sketches by S. Frances (Susie Frances) Harrison

Each association as it comes must be broken up, certain parts or elements emerge, certain relationships, implications, or functions are made conscious.
— from How to Teach by Naomi Norsworthy

Exclusion, election, cleansing, redemption—these are the four forms in which God’s Holiness appears in the sphere of humanity; and we may say that God’s Holiness signifies His opposition to sin manifesting itself in atonement and redemption, or in judgment .
— from Holy in Christ Thoughts on the Calling of God's Children to be Holy as He is Holy by Andrew Murray

But, in reviewing our arguments, we shall find, I think, that that which led us astray at every turn and induced us to hope for an answer, now on this side, now on that, was the tendency to look for some independent cause, some essence, effecting change rather than being effected, or of which phenomena were only the properties.
— from A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution by Cora May Williams

"[157] Isaiah Horwitz (1570-1630), whose ritual and ethical collection is still very popular in Eastern Europe, compares Rashi's commentaries to the revelation on Sinai.
— from Rashi by Maurice Liber

Each entire column represents 1,000 births, and the blackened portion represents the proportion of that 1,000 dead before the fifth birthday.
— from Mankind in the Making by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells